Pericles Gregoriou
Retired portfolio manager. Consultant to investment advisors and firms.
Biography
Pericles Gregoriou is a retired portfolio manager who now consults with investment advisors and firms on their professional and company growth and operational opportunities. He writes about the history of Laconia and the historic preservation of the built environment.
Studies include blockchain at the University of Nicosia, agentic AI building through Centiverse, and a crowdfunding certificate from Wharton.
Latest Articles
St. Nikon of Sparta: The Patron Saint of Lakedaimon, the Expulsion of the Jews, and the Anatomy of a Canonization
October 19, 2026 · An essay on St. Nikon the Metanoeite (c. 930–c. 1000), patron saint of Sparta, and the expulsion of Sparta's Jewish community in the early 970s, read against Byzantine law and scholarship. It argues the expulsion was an extralegal act under a charismatic monk's pressure, that the sources charge ritual pollution rather than contagion, and that it served as a founding act of Nikon's local cult.
Read (PDF)Spartan Influences on the Design of the American Republic
October 9, 2026 · A study arguing that the Lycurgan constitution of Sparta passed a significant, mediated inheritance to the American founding through Polybius, the Roman Republic and Britain. It draws structural parallels between Sparta's paired Kings, Gerousia, Apella and Ephorate and the American President and Vice President, Senate, House and a judicial check.
Read (PDF)The Laconian Table: A Culinary History of Sparta, the Parnonas, and the Mani
A culinary history of Laconia, from the ancient Spartan syssitia through later periods to the present, with regional surveys, restaurant notes and recipes. It is framed by the author's childhood summers in Sparta and Polydroso (Tsintzina) and his grandmother's beef version of the Spartan broth.
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Thesis
A Case-Based Analysis of the Investment Effects of the Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit and the Proposed Historic Tax Credit Growth and Opportunity Act
October 5, 2026 · Updated edition of the 1993 master's thesis. This revision keeps the original thesis's method: it models a single marginal rehabilitation (10 North Third Street, Philadelphia), tests its after-tax performance for several investor types under current law and under the proposed HTC-GO Act, and ends with policy recommendations. Because the CRTA was never enacted, HTC-GO is now the proposal under test.
Original: A Case-Based Analysis of the Investment Effects of the Community Revitalization Tax Act (Master of Science in Historic Preservation, University of Pennsylvania, 1993).
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